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The US is Arming and Assisting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, While Congress Debates Prohibition By Max Blumenthal
The American government’s collaboration with committed Nazi ideologues to undercut Russian geopolitical goals is not new, nor has it been a particularly well-kept secret. In his 1988 book length expose, “Blowback,” investigative journalist Christopher Simpson lifted the cover off the CIA’s program of rehabilitating former assets of Nazi Germany, including documented war criminals, and revealed… Continue reading
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After Hawaii Scare, Trump Worsens Nuclear Danger
Trump’s bellicose statements about North Korea and the recent false missile alert in Hawaii have raised global alarm over nuclear war. Now, in an unprecedented step, a draft of the new U.S. Nuclear Posture calls for authorizing nuclear weapons use even in response to a non-military attack Continue reading
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The Pentagon’s New Syria War Plan: Selected Articles
18 January 2018 — Global Research Syrian Air Defense Ready to Destroy Turkish Warplanes If They Attack Afrin – Deputy FM By South Front, January 18, 2018 Syria’s Air Defense Forces are ready to react to any Turkish hostile action in Afrin and the Damascus government will consider the Turkish military operation there as an act… Continue reading
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The Pentagon’s New Syria War Plan: Selected Articles
18 January 2018 — Global Research Syrian Air Defense Ready to Destroy Turkish Warplanes If They Attack Afrin – Deputy FM By South Front, January 18, 2018 Syria’s Air Defense Forces are ready to react to any Turkish hostile action in Afrin and the Damascus government will consider the Turkish military operation there as an act… Continue reading
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#TheAssistance: Democrats Hand Trump Warrantless Spying
Fifty-five House Democrats, including #Resistance stalwarts, have joined Republicans to give Trump’s NSA broad warrantless surveillance powers. The Senate is likely to follow. We speak to Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Continue reading
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Trump’s “More Nukes”: Selected Stories
15 January 2017 — Global Research Trump’s Despicable Statement: Is There Such a Thing as a “Shithole Country”? By Andrew Korybko, January 14, 2018 The question should be rephrased to whether there’s such a thing as a “shithole” period, and yes, there is, but the stereotypical “Third World” socio-economic and physical conditions that the word often embodies… Continue reading
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US – More Hawkish Than Ever? Building an Empire, Fomenting a Unipolar World
12 January 2018 — Global Research News It’s Nato that’s Empire-building, not Putin By Peter Hitchins and True Publica, January 11, 2018 Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than… Continue reading
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History of US-Iran Relations: “Regime Change” and the Islamic State in 1979? By Masud Wadan
According to Masud Wadan in this timely analysis of Iran’s 1979 Revolution, the US and its European allies favored the creation of an Islamic State headed by Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s spiritual leader, with a view to undermining Iran’s leftist-progressive revolutionary movement. Continue reading
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In Fusion GPS Testimony, More Questions Than Answers
As President Trump refuses to commit to an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the long-awaited testimony of Glenn Simpson, founder of the firm behind the Steele dossier, has been released. Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler and Aaron Mate discuss Continue reading
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The campaign over the “unfitness” of Donald Trump
The publication of Michael Wolff’s insider account of the early months of the Trump administration, Fire and Fury, has become the occasion for a media firestorm powered by allegations that Trump is mentally unfit to be president. Media pundits and Democratic politicians have cited the book’s portrayal of Trump to claim that the president should… Continue reading
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Think Tank-Addicted Media Turn to Regime Change Enthusiasts for Iran Protest Commentary By Adam Johnson
Since the outbreak of mass demonstrations and unrest in Iran last week, US media have mostly busied themselves with the question of not if we should “do something,” but what, exactly, that something should be. As usual, it’s simply taken for granted the United States has a divine right to intervene in the affairs of… Continue reading
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Anglo Saxon alliance helps its ally to kill another 54 civilians – running amok?
Widely reported: on 26 December, airstrikes on a crowded popular market in Al Hayma sub-district in Attazziah district, Taizz Governorate led to at least 54 civilians being killed, including eight children, and 32 others injured including six children. More than 350 high-profile figures including six Nobel peace prize laureates, former military generals, politicians, diplomats and… Continue reading
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NYT Trumpwashes 70 Years of US Crime By Adam Johnson
Trumpwashing—defined as whitewashing, obscuring or rewriting the broader US record by presenting Donald Trump as an aberration (FAIR.org, 6/3/16)—was on full display Thursday in a nominally straight news report from the New York Times’ Mark Landler (12/28/17) on how Trump has reshaped US foreign policy. Buried in the otherwise banal analysis was this gem of… Continue reading
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US-North Korea Nuclear War: One Million Deaths on the First Day: Selected Articles
28 December 2017 — Global Research The Quad: US Searches Edge of Asia for Allies to Contain Beijing By Tony Cartalucci, December 28, 2017 There has been a recent buzz promoted around the so-called Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) – a coalition of sorts counting the United States, India, Australia, and Japan as members. Promoted by familiar corporate-financier… Continue reading
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North Korea – UN Security Council’s “Killer Resolution”,15 to 0: Choking a Country into Submission By Peter Koenig
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is being choked into submission if not starvation by the UN Security Council, by a vote of 15 : 0; i.e. unanimously. None of the 15 UNSC states, let alone the five permanent members, have had the guts to say no to a killer Resolution, drafted and proposed… Continue reading
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Trump Suppressing Biggest National Security Threat
While the Trump Administration censors the term ‘climate change’ for government institutions, the Pentagon highlights the urgency of the crisis Continue reading
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'Whataboutism' Runs Amok as Jake Tapper Rattles Off Trump Talking Points By Adam Johnson
For over a year, US media have insisted that the tactic of deflecting criticism by pointing to others’ flaws was the devious Soviet tool of “whataboutism,” and anyone using it was practicing “one of Russia’s favorite propaganda tactics.” If so, when it came time for CNN’s Jake Tapper (12/21/17) to spin for the Trump administration’s… Continue reading
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Suman Raghunathan on Muslim Ban Return, Bruce Stanley on Don Blankenship
22 December 2017 — FAIR by CounterSpin MP3 Link (cc photo: Fibonacci Blue) This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court has OKed full implementation of Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban—despite the fact that its constitutionality is still being challenged in lower courts. Despite the fact that even Department of Homeland Security reports show no relationship… Continue reading
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NYT Failed to Note Op-Ed Authors' Funder Has $2 Billion Motive for Attacking Argentina By Eli Clifton/LobeLog
Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times (12/11/17) to celebrate last week’s announcement that Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, would face treason charges for her alleged role in covering up Iran’s alleged involvement in… Continue reading
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US Strikes Out with New War-Mongering on Iran
US Ambassador Nikki Halley’s speech on alleged Iranian violations was even less convincing than Colin Powell’s fraudulent UN presentation on Iraqi WMDs, says Trita Parsi (inc. transcript) Continue reading
